Ruth, though her needs were met, and much kindness had been shown her, was without a home; she had no rest (verse 1), no home.
Reader, have you an interest, made yours through the Saviour's blood, in the rest, the home, that remains for the people of God? "We which have believed", Hebrews 4:3, plainly states, "do enter into rest", for "there remaineth a rest to the people of God."
Naomi, then, led of God, proposed to Ruth that she boldly lay claim to the mighty kinsman who, had already treated her with much kindness. This she did. and Boaz answered her. "Fear not, I will do to thee all that thou requires (verse 11), but there was a nearer kinsman; if he would not do the kinsman's part, redeeming the inheritance,—then the great man of wealth would.
We are looking at Ruth as a Gentile stranger seeking shelter by faith beneath the wings of the God of Israel and this nearer kinsman typified the law given through Moses, which was never able to re-establish Israel in their inheritance. nor to raise up in grace the name of the dead.
Many today are seeking to establish themselves by keeping the law, or rather by trying to keep the law, thinking thereby to merit heaven; but the law could never make perfect that which was imperfect—there was always the conscience of 'sins (Heb. 10:1-14).
It must be all of grace, the work of God, the ground of the believer's peace. There is an eternal relationship of the closest, the most precious character, planned by God for His beloved Son, that those who have received Him by faith as their Saviour and Lord should be with and like Him, His body indeed and His heavenly bride (Ephesians, etc.), but this is all of God's doing, not at all of man's..
Reader, if you are clinging to any fancied goodness of your own for salvation, I beg you to abandon it once and for all.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31.
"Through this Man (Jesus) is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins." Acts 18:3S.